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CareersThis is the latest way employers mask age bias, lawyers say“Young people are just smarter,” Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, famously said on a conference stage in 2007 when he was 22. In 2013, Facebook settled a lawsuit with California’s
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LeadershipIn limiting Obama’s appointment power, Supreme Court voids worker rightsA Supreme Court decision on Thursday reined in the president’s power to temporarily fill senior government positions without a Senate vote. The complicated, unanimous decision written by Justice

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